The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-06

zines nearly always and books when / get a
chance. 1t would be hard to either my
favorite poet or prose author" 1t is thought,
however that Mr.. Endcott has developed sud
den and strong admiration for a poem beginning
Not a Drum was heard"
IT has been remarked that Mrs. Cleveland pos
sesses exceptionally strong wrists and is conse-
ouently able to endure the prolonged handshak-
ing at public receptions without over fatigue.
Her strength of muscle is attributed to her per-
sistent use of dumb-bells She is said to be
quite gymnast and owes much OF her graceful
carriage TO the thorough command of her body
given by caisthentic exercises.
MR. RUsKIN desires to contradict the partly
idle, partly malicious" rumors which have lately
got abroad concerning his health. whenever"
he says, II write a word that my friends don't
what a cruel and wicked form of libe! they thus
provoke against the work of old age in all Its
convictions autagonistic to the changes of the
times and in all its comfort oppressed by them"
Is there martyr who can pair
In histrys painful annals
With him whose wife still makes him
His heavy winter fannelss
Cleveland Sun and Voice.
DON'T think the ice man failed you,
Or let the fear disturb;
You tell that he has been here
BY the damp spot on the curb
EVER since the time of George Washington q
Howard Fox has been United States consul at
Falmouth England. The present occupant of
the position commissioned bv President
Grant in 1874. The Fox family is English and
thew cling to the Office with true British conser-
vatism There is no salary attached 20 the posi-
ton and the fees are about f40 annually. The
consul always spends more than that enter tain
ing Americans.
CAPT ARTHUR LILLE, an officer who served
through the Indian mutny, has just brought out
q remarkable book which he has been en-
gagged for seventeen years. entitled buddhism
in Christendom." He endeavors to show that
fho has and WIG of ma
on the Mount, the beatitudes, the prodigal
son. the commandments, etc, are all found in
the original Buddhistic writings which first saw
light nearly 500 B. c.
A GERMAN statistician announces that mari
has twice the attraction for lightning which
chalk has and that sand has nine times and clay
twenty times much. Moreover fftYfou oak
trees and fifteen pine trees are struck for every
beech tree that the lightning touches; so that 1t
one is caught out in a thunderstorm, and
must stand under a tree. it is better to stand
under beech tree which is rooted in chalky
ground than anywhere else.
THE Rev. George W. Woodward, who died in
Chicago last week, was direct descendant of
professor in Dartmouth College. His father
also professor there at the time OF the cele-
brated lawsuit in which Daniel Webster pleaded
so eloquently for the college; and his wife, as
sisted by their son, just deceased hid the i'm
portant documents in the case in an oats-bin
until Mr. Webster could como on from Boston
and take charge of them.
Mr.. HIGGINsoN says that for one young man
who adopts his fathers profession profess
sion of his fathers choice "there a doz
who strike out for themselves in way and
choose something as far as possible from the at
mosphere in which they nave been reared" He
thinks that while the tend ency in older lands is
to make men specialists, the tendency here is
still to make good "all round" men, and the fact
is due, he says, to the Constant impulse of the
young American to try something he has never
tried before"
A STRIKING instance Of labor-saving machine
ry is that which makes tin caEs. One of the ma
chimes used in the process soldiers the Longitude
nal seams of the at the rate of fifty min
ute. the cans rushing along in continuous
stream; of course, drop or two of solder is left
the The drop on the outside is easily
wiped off, but it is not easy to secure the drop
left the inside. An ingenious workman has
patented arrangement for wiping the inside
of the without stopping the machinery. Re-
suit several thousand dollars in royalties in his
own pocket, and saving of fifteen dollars
worth of solder per day to the firm that uses it.
Thirty thousand cans is days work for this